Title: Eden Lake (2008)
Director: James Watkins
Writer: James Watkins
Starring: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Tara Ellis
Trailer:
within the trailer we get a good understanding about what the film entails and shows rather a lot of the storyline, from the trailer we can tell that the film is very British and would associate it with stereotypes of the working class and people living on council estates as well as the common thug that most people are familiar with.
Trailer:
within the trailer we get a good understanding about what the film entails and shows rather a lot of the storyline, from the trailer we can tell that the film is very British and would associate it with stereotypes of the working class and people living on council estates as well as the common thug that most people are familiar with.
Opening title and sequence:
Within the first 20 seconds of the film we can already guess that this is a horror and a terrifying one at that. There are tone cards with the director’s names and actors names, but also we see short shots of a woman in pain as well as shots of the lake. The non-digetic music is seedy and cold with sharp high noises. We can also here the digetic sound of the woman wailing in pain. Form this we can guess that maybe she is one of the main characters.
Within the first 20 seconds of the film we can already guess that this is a horror and a terrifying one at that. There are tone cards with the director’s names and actors names, but also we see short shots of a woman in pain as well as shots of the lake. The non-digetic music is seedy and cold with sharp high noises. We can also here the digetic sound of the woman wailing in pain. Form this we can guess that maybe she is one of the main characters.
Codes and conventions:
· Young women and man
· Romantic weekend
· Deserted area of woodland and lake
· She seems innocent sweet primary school teacher
Moment Equilibrium:
This period seems nice and could near enough turn into any type of film but obviously from the opening titles we realise that it is a horror. Here we witness the lead woman with her student she is a primary school teacher that make her all the more innocent, we then see her partner who is admiring a ring this is when we come to the conclusion that he is planning on proposing to her.
As they are driving to the lake, we can hear a discussion on the radio about parents needing to go to parenting classes to help control their children; this gives us a clue to what might happen.
They then arrive at this pub and bed and breakfast where we can straight away tell there are certain stereotypes of people (loud and boisterous)
This period seems nice and could near enough turn into any type of film but obviously from the opening titles we realise that it is a horror. Here we witness the lead woman with her student she is a primary school teacher that make her all the more innocent, we then see her partner who is admiring a ring this is when we come to the conclusion that he is planning on proposing to her.
As they are driving to the lake, we can hear a discussion on the radio about parents needing to go to parenting classes to help control their children; this gives us a clue to what might happen.
They then arrive at this pub and bed and breakfast where we can straight away tell there are certain stereotypes of people (loud and boisterous)
Moment of disequilibrium: the moment of disequilibrium takes a very long time to set in, when they realise there stuff has been stolen I think this is when they realise that things are going downhill and so meting out of the ordinary is going on.
New equilibrium: with this film we think she has escaped as she stumbles into a party but for her it is not over, so there is no real new equilibrium.
This film also play a good part at the final girl theory aswell.
This film also play a good part at the final girl theory aswell.
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